POLIN: OUR GOALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

POLIN was established in 1986 as a yearbook to provide a resource for the growing пи riber of scholars who seek authoritative historical and cultural material 011 i-'oli sh Jewry. It has attempted to encourage research on an interdisciplinary basis and has sought contributions from many disciplines history, sociology, politics, anthropology, linguistics, literature and folklore and from a wide variety of viewpoints. Editorial policy is controlled by a five-person collegium, made up of Israel Bartal, Director of the Center for the Study of Polish Jewry and Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University; Monika Garbowska, Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Marie Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin; Antony Polonsky, Chairman, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Waltham, MA; Michael Steinlauf, Associate Professor of Jewish History at Gratz College, Philadelphia; and Jerzy Tomaszewski, Professor of History and Director of the Mordekhai Anieliewicz Centre for Jewish Studies at Warsaw University. The Collegium is assisted by editorial and advisory boards, made up of leading specialists in Polish-Jewish Studies from Poland, Israel, North America and Western Europe. Czeslaw Milosz is Chair of the Advisory Board. In the first issue, the editors wrote in their introductory statement: